Utilitarianism and Beyond

By Amartya Sen, B. Williams. 1982

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. S. Fukuda‐Parr
2. H. Paul Williams
3. John N. Hooker
4. V. Iversen
5. Mark S. Granovetter
6. Pratik Gajane
7. Tore Opsahl
8. Philip McCann

Citations in the corpus

• THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM: OPERATIONALIZING SEN'S IDEAS ON CAPABILITIES (2003, background): “Sen sets out the limitations of this approach (Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams 1982), among which the most significant is the neglect of rights, freedoms, and human agency.”
• Implications of transdisciplinarity for sustainability research (2006, unknown): “But the basic question with respect to practical reason in this issue is whether and how a meaningful comparison of the various heterogeneous damages of climate change is possible (Hare, 1979; Sen and Williams, 1982).”
• A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology (2000, background): “…of this point would require a full discussion of whether in their social interaction people are what might be called “consequentialists” (cf. Sen and Williams 1982: 4) -- i.e. to what extent their social action is undertaken as a means to an end, where the end might be social approval as…”